Stage Generated Behavior
BOUNDARY-STAGE-GENERATED-BEHAVIOR
Summary
Validate generated, reloadable, or plugin-provided behavior in a staging path before promoting it over known-good behavior. Staging adds recovery cost only where runtime-loaded or generated artifacts can fail after deployment.
Rule
Stage generated or reloadable behavior before promotion.
Why
Generated, reloadable, or plugin-provided behavior can be malformed, stale, or incompatible with the current runtime. Staging it before promotion lets the system validate, inspect, and roll back instead of replacing known-good behavior immediately.
Helps
- Makes dynamic behavior safer and more recoverable.
Limits
Do not stage trivial generated artifacts that are already fully validated at build time. Stage runtime-loaded behavior or generated code that can fail after deployment.
Agent Instruction
Stage generated or reloadable behavior before promotion because generated, reloadable, or
plugin-provided behavior can be malformed, stale, or incompatible with the current runtime.Mechanisms
Supported by staging directories, validation passes, checksums, promotion markers, rollback records, and tests for invalid generated input.